With just two months left of Arne Slot's difficult second season at Liverpool, things appear to be dangling on a knife edge.

For those whose glasses are half full, the return of club football sees the Reds enter the home straight with plenty to play for between now and the end of the term.

It all begins with an FA Cup quarter-final trip to Manchester City where Slot's Premier League champions will do battle for a second successive trip to Wembley and a place in the last four of the world's oldest cup competition.

After that, attention turns swiftly to another mouthwatering tie as Paris Saint-Germain entertain the Reds for the second successive season in the first leg of their last-eight Champions League clash.

Perhaps there are few assignments in world football that are tougher right now than visits to the Etihad and the Parc des Princes but no-one should make those journeys with trepidation, regardless of Liverpool's general form in recent months.

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